The first table below looks at the demand for Security Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Security Testing over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Peterborough region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Security Testing
Rank 37 41 44
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Security Testing 11 4 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 3.081% 1.278% 1.684%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.231% 1.786% 2.370%
Number of salaries quoted 11 0 0
Average salary £70,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +42.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
Peterborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
260 224 211
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 72.83% 71.57% 71.04%
Number of salaries quoted 224 186 177
Average salary £40,000 £39,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.26% +5.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,525 £23,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £45,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Security Testing
Cambridgeshire

Security Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Security Testing across the Peterborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Peterborough Security Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Security Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Security Testing across the Peterborough region.

Peterborough Security Testing Salary Trend

Security Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough region citing Security Testing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Security Testing.

1 28 (100.00%) TDD
2 15 (53.57%) Automated Testing
2 15 (53.57%) QA
2 15 (53.57%) WATIR
2 15 (53.57%) Selenium
2 15 (53.57%) Web Testing
2 15 (53.57%) Jasmine
3 13 (46.43%) HTML5
3 13 (46.43%) Git (software)
3 13 (46.43%) WCF
3 13 (46.43%) jQuery
3 13 (46.43%) Performance Testing
3 13 (46.43%) Ajax
3 13 (46.43%) C#
3 13 (46.43%) JavaScript
3 13 (46.43%) SQL
3 13 (46.43%) .NET
3 13 (46.43%) CSS
3 13 (46.43%) XML
3 13 (46.43%) OO
3 13 (46.43%) E-Commerce
3 13 (46.43%) SOA
3 13 (46.43%) HTTP
3 13 (46.43%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (25.00%) Multithreading
5 7 (25.00%) Load Testing
5 7 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
5 7 (25.00%) Network Architecture
6 6 (21.43%) Agile Software Development

Security Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough region citing Security Testing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Security Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (46.43%) HTML5
1 13 (46.43%) WCF
1 13 (46.43%) jQuery
1 13 (46.43%) Ajax
1 13 (46.43%) .NET
1 13 (46.43%) CSS
1 13 (46.43%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 13 (46.43%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 15 (53.57%) WATIR
1 15 (53.57%) Selenium
1 15 (53.57%) Jasmine
2 13 (46.43%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) QA Manager
2 13 (46.43%) QA Test Manager
2 13 (46.43%) Software Engineer
2 13 (46.43%) Test Manager
3 7 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Quality Manager
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.71%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) TDD
2 15 (53.57%) Automated Testing
2 15 (53.57%) Web Testing
3 13 (46.43%) Performance Testing
3 13 (46.43%) OO
3 13 (46.43%) E-Commerce
3 13 (46.43%) SOA
4 10 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (25.00%) Multithreading
5 7 (25.00%) Load Testing
5 7 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
5 7 (25.00%) Network Architecture
6 6 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 2 (7.143%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) C#
1 13 (46.43%) JavaScript
1 13 (46.43%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (53.57%) QA
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